When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.

Once bitten, you seldom lose the political bug.

The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.

I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that.

When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.

I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.

You can't say the negro left the Republican party; the negro feels he was evicted from the Republican party.